President Donald Trump on Dec. 18 ordered the suspension of the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, the same program that granted entry to the United States to the suspect in a recent mass shooting at Brown University.
A citizen of Portugal, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, on Dec. 13, allegedly shot and killed two students at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and then, on Dec. 15, allegedly shot and killed a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in his home, according to prosecutors.
“The Brown University shooter … entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card. This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” wrote Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on social media on Dec. 18….